On November 22, 2018, Computer Society President Hironori Kasahara extended a commemorative recognition plaque to the society’s Russia chapter and to the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of System Programming, marking the country’s 70th anniversary in computer science.

The Color Platform is a 3rd generation blockchain platform that focuses on developing dApps. The goal of the Color platform team is to create a worldwide community where both developers and non-developers can easily develop a wide range of various dApps sophisticated and simple, complicated and easy and use these dApps in their daily lives. Towards to this goal, the Color Platform Team provides Color Development Kit (CDK) that greatly simplifies dApp development on dual layered Color Platform architecture – Color Spectrum layer as service nodes and Blockchain layer as decentralized ledger store.

The fifth OS DAY conference, traditionally bringing together representatives of the system programming industry from all over Russia and the post-Soviet space, was held at the end of May in the headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Reliability of operating platforms was the main topic for the discussion. The issue of vocational education and training, as one of the main factors of reliability, was considered as well.

May 3-4, 2018 Russian-Armenian University will host an international conference dedicated to the memory of Viktor Ivannikov, a prominent computer scientist, founder of the school of system programming, one of the first developers of operating systems in Russia. Guests of the conference will take part in the unveiling of the traditional monument “khachkar” in honor of Academician Ivannikov. Students and followers of Viktor Ivannikov, IT specialists from different countries appreciate greatly his contribution to the computer science, cultural ties, friendship between Russia and Armenia, they have jointly reared a khachkar (a stone stele with a cross) on his behalf. The khachkar is installed in the Khor Virap monastery, associated with the name of St. Gregory the Illuminator - the Baptist of Armenia.

May 17-18, 2018, the 5th Research and Development Conference "OS DAY. Reliability" is due to be held at the headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences which will host developers of Russian operating systems. The issue of reliability will be the main topic for discussion among academic and industrial researchers of software. Attendees will consider methods for designing and developing reliable platforms, tools for ensuring the reliability of software and hardware systems, both at the development and operational stages. The conference is organized by a consortium of leading Russian IT companies and organizations, such as Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP RAS), DZ Systems, Kaspersky Lab, BaseALT, State Research Institute of Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS), Swemel, RusBITech, RED SOFT, Trusted Platform Computing Association.

The subject of the 4-th OS DAY conference, held on May 23-24 at the Russian Academy of Sciences, was Russian-made operating systems. Representatives of research institutes and software companies met to share experiences, establish contacts and discuss the most important challenges of the era: development of operating platforms and enforcing information security.

From May 16–17 San Francisco will welcome developers from around the world for the Tizen Developer Conference (TDC) 2017. ISP RAS is a certified partner of the Tizen conference. Attendees of the event can look forward to illuminating presentations delivered by tech industry leaders, as well as a wide range of hands-on sessions that emphasize Tizen’s ability to advance the development of IoT devices.

On April 4, the Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences signed an agreement on scientific cooperation with the University of the Republic (Universidad de la República, UDELAR). The purpose of the agreement is to promote the development and dissemination of cultural ties, scientific and technological research, and higher education. The decision to sign documents on cooperation, the institute and the university were guided by the current agreement between the governments of Russia and Uruguay on cultural and scientific cooperation signed in 1997.

May 23-24, the 4th Research and Development Conference OS DAY is due to be held in the headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences which will host developers and customers of domestic operating systems. The leading Russian companies and organizations have joined the conference this year: ISP RAS, DZ Systems, Kaspersky Lab, Swemel, BaseALT, Open Mobile Platform, GosNIIAS, RusBITech, "Taizen.ru".

"Texterra" is a technology of multilingual text mining. It is based on software developed for accumulating and analyzing information on the concept level and performing intellectual analysis of texts. At the same time, "Texterra" draws on a range of concepts and terms, almost an order of magnitude greater than the size of the British Encyclopedia, and can expand its knowledge base, if necessary. As a result, when using this technology, it is possible to calculate lexically similar texts belonging to a pen of the same author or written according to a common plan, containing similar semantic constructions, and thus, to reveal the fact and structure of information attacks.

The 1-st Research and Development Conference of the Institute for System Programming RAS took place at the Russian Academy of Sciences in the beginning of December. The conference summed up two decades of work, during which the Institute had been developing new software products, technologies and services. Many of them were unknown to a wider audience until recently; some of those, featured at the conference, attracted considerable interest of the colleagues in the IT sphere and journalists.

On December, 1-2 the Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences will arrange the first scientific-practical Open conference devoted to the ISP RAS fundamental researches, technologies and practical studies which have been closed on agreement with projects’ originators. Latest projects on implementing new technologies in industry, executed together with foreign and Russian industry partners will be presented to participants.

An industrial tool for strategic analysis of programs source code Svace, designed to search for a wide range of critical code errors, vulnerabilities and flaws, became one of three nominee for «Technology of the year» CNews AWARDS, which took place on November, 10, 2016 under CNews FORUM 2016.

Anna Vladimirovna Dybko, a doctor of science in linguistics, chief researcher and head of the Department of Ural-Altaic languages of RAS Institute of Linguistics, RAS corresponding member, professor of Center of comparative studies of Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies of RSUH, became one of the winners of the fifth competition for megagrants.

A software solution Svace, developed by the Institute for System Programming of the RAS was included in software development kit (SDK) for mobile OS Tizen. Head of the ISP RAS Arutyun Avetisyan and government relations director of Samsung Russian office Marat Guriev reported this to CNews.

Member of ISP RAS Alexander Monakov made a report "OpenMP offloading for the NVPTX target in GCC" about a project on adding support of acceleration aspect of OpenMP 4.x standard in GCC compiler and its implementation for NVIDIA accelerators platform (PTX architecture) at the GCC Cauldron 2016 conference.

Member of ISP RAS Dmitry Melnik made a report "LLV8: Adding LLVM as an extra JIT tier to V8 JavaScript engine" at the LLVM Cauldron conference, which was devoted to LLVM compiling tools development. The report was devoted to using LLVM compiler as JIT-compiler for V8 engine of JavaScript language. This project is mentioned in news at websites www.infoworld.com and www.phoronix.com.

In June 8-14, 2016 the international summer school ERCOFTAC events, devoted to three-dimensional turbulent flows modeling, took place in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Spain). Among other invited guests there were Sergey Strizhak (Institute for System Programming of RAS), Ilyas Sibgatullin and Mikhail Kurgansky (MSU, A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics of RAS).

We invite you to take part in the scientific-practical Open conference of the ISP RAS, which will take place in December, from 1st to 2nd in the Main hall of the Russian academy of sciences located at: Moscow, Leninskiy prospekt 32A.